Talk:Shibboleth

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I read 'somewhere' - a German spy in the UK in the first part of the 20th century identified because 'he spoke English too well.' While probably 'an urban legend spun from a strand of truth', would this count as a shibboleth? Anna Livia (talk) 13:29, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Len Deighton's alternative history novel SS-GB claims that a good test of whether a suspicious chap was a German spy was to get them to try to pronounce “Wolverhampton Wanderers”. Mr Larrington (talk) 22:36, 1 October 2022 (UTC)